The Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) has published its terms of reference for its Savita Halappanavar inquiry.
The body says it will investigate the safety, quality and standards of services provided by the Health Service Executive (HSE) to patients "including pregnant women, at risk of clinical deterioration, including those provided in University Hospital Galway (UHG)".
It adds that its assessment will be made against the National Standards for Safer Better Healthcare and relevant national and international evidence.
Sepsis care also part of investigation
It also says this will include diagnosis and management of patients with sepsis but also that the review "will be limited to those aspects of safety, quality and standards that the Authority considers are relevant and material to the Investigation".
The 31-year-old died last month having contracted septicaemia after a miscarriage at Galway University Hospital.
HIQA announced this day last week that it would investigate the care and treatment provided to her.
This followed a request from the HSE who is conducting a separate investigation.
The authority says it will prepare a report of the findings and make local and national recommendations as to the safety, quality and standards of services provided by the HSE.
This will be submitted to the Board of the Authority for approval and then published.
